Would you have given her money?

az2wp0sye65487 · 29-12-2012 01:49AM

Got one of those before.... There is no contract / agreement to purchase there if she simply hands it to you and walks off. If she does that it's yours. Keep the air freshener!

There used to be a Romany gypsy aul one begging at the traffic lights at the Days Hotel junction of the Ballymun Road (coming from Poppintree direction). I used to stop the car about 20m back from the rest of the stationary traffic; then after letting her (slowly) walk up to my car to beg I'd drive forward to stop behind the rest of the traffic at the red light. She wouldn't bother trying to come back to me as the lights would have turned green by the time she got there!

Problem solved!

uberalles · 29-12-2012 02:11AM

Foreigners throwing scented trees and lolly pops into cars.

What about the good old days when natives would through rodents into the opened windows of slow moving or stopped cars. The ocupants would jump out and the thiefs would take whatever was on the passenger seat. Ah the good old days.

PizzamanIRL · 29-12-2012 02:31AM

When you're broke you're desperate for money. So what if she 'forced' you to consider giving her money. She's hardly out asking for money for the crack.

ITS_A_BADGER · 29-12-2012 03:48AM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

When you're broke you're desperate for money. So what if she 'forced' you to consider giving her money. She's hardly out asking for money for the crack.

Im all for helping out homeless people man, ive given money to homeless people and even brought food and water for some. But it think the problem is and OPs dilemma is her "method" of "forcing" you to give her money. People dont like to be pressured into doing something. The lady might need the money very much so, but its the way shes doing it, i cant say what i would have done in OPs shoes but i would definatly would have felt a bit pressured into giving her something

stoneill · 29-12-2012 03:59AM

Jasus - if you played your cards right you could have got the ride.

uberalles · 30-12-2012 01:33PM

[QUOTE=Arciphel;82279008. I am guessing she is Romanian?[/QUOTE]

You are making a
Big issue
Out of this

Hippies! · 30-12-2012 01:42PM

Where she get the freshners from?

Lunni · 30-12-2012 01:45PM

Ireland is a welfare state. There's no need whatsoever to beg at traffic lights. A woman with 2 kids would be entitled to cheap/free accommodation and various kinds of benefits. I know single mothers with 2 kids who are much better off than me.

Death and Taxes · 30-12-2012 01:47PM

Lunni wrote: »

Ireland is a welfare state. There's no need whatsoever to beg at traffic lights. A woman with 2 kids would be entitled to cheap/free accommodation and various kinds of benefits. I know single mothers with 2 kids who are much better off than me.

How wrong can one post be!
Clearly you have never heard of the Habitual Residence clause in qualifying for SW.:mad:

actuallylike · 30-12-2012 01:55PM

I got stopped by either her or else another woman doing the same thing. She handed the air freshner and naturally I was delighted because she just smiled and walked on. There was no mention of purchase involved. She came back down the row of cars 5 seconds later after I had already hung it up, her initial smile had turned to a stern look and was now demanding money. I told her to fcuk off and drove off. Still have it hanging up

donvito99 · 30-12-2012 01:57PM

Inertia selling is illegal, is it not?

ejmaztec · 30-12-2012 02:08PM

donvito99 wrote: »

Inertia selling is illegal, is it not?

If she ends up in court she could ask for tree other offences to be taken into consideration.

squirrelohara · 30-12-2012 02:13PM

WileyCoyote wrote: »

How wrong can one post be!
Clearly you have never heard of the Habitual Residence clause in qualifying for SW.:mad:

What does that clause mean. Just curious

Hootanany · 30-12-2012 02:19PM

Does she have the Black Ice one

Death and Taxes · 30-12-2012 02:21PM

squirrelohara wrote: »

What does that clause mean. Just curious

You will find out all about here:
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEkQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flac.ie%2Fdownload%2Fpdf%2Fhabitual_residence_condition_guide_final.pdf&ei=wz7gUO2SFo2HhQeItoH4BQ&usg=AFQjCNFuGPRipmLUmbPVutU8N72V0VAeTA

squirrelohara · 30-12-2012 02:26PM

WileyCoyote wrote: »

You will find out all about here:
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEkQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flac.ie%2Fdownload%2Fpdf%2Fhabitual_residence_condition_guide_final.pdf&ei=wz7gUO2SFo2HhQeItoH4BQ&usg=AFQjCNFuGPRipmLUmbPVutU8N72V0VAeTA

I better not say anything about it or people will get angry haha

Froyo · 30-12-2012 02:31PM

Arciphel wrote: »

This I am guessing she is Romanian?

irishjig69b wrote: »

menise to society these fuc king romanians, kick them all out with the other scrongers, over 300 million a year to keep this leeches here, bloody shocking

My retardometer just exploded.

R0ot · 30-12-2012 03:07PM

Seen people doing this around Maynooth recently and no.

W.Shakes-Beer · 30-12-2012 03:23PM

I actually have one of these in my car currently.....

A man handed it in the window (I thought it was free) and I noted the note stapled to it, and he kept on walking way behind my car. Lights went green and I got a free air freshener

T'is lemony.

UCDVet · 30-12-2012 03:36PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Nope. My money is mine, I won't be forced to give it to anyone.

Except the government

Who will gladly redistribute it to whomever it likes.

But yeah ignoring that 51% of income, the rest is alllllll ours.

NegativeCreep · 30-12-2012 03:40PM

UCDVet wrote: »

Except the government

Who will gladly redistribute it to whomever it likes.

But yeah ignoring that 51% of income, the rest is alllllll ours.

Yeah but I don't have a job so I don't pay tax :L Except the tax on items that I buy. But technically that's not me paying tax since it's not my money anyway.

jojobeans · 12-01-2013 08:07PM

lightspeed wrote: »

Right i was coming home from blanchardstown shopping centre on Saturday and stuck at traffic lights. Im not sure which traffic lights exactly but i was near the motorway and traffic was a good way back.

At the lights, i could see some woman who appeared to be handing out leaflets.

The friend who was with said no shes probaly selling something, she be will back asking for money.

Given that i had not seen her talking to the other motorists and just saw her handing something to them, i assumed it was a leaflet.

Nope, it was a magic tree air freshener with a note stapled to it that read
" Please give me money, I have lost my job and have 2 kids"

Im pretty sure, word for word thats what it said.

Of course, i came to my senses and gave her back her magic tree.

From what i could see, some of the cars in front must have just drove off as
i doubt she managed to get back to all of them a second time for payment.

What bothered me the most was the way she done it. She did not ask if i would like to but one but instead throw it at me through the window whilst walking by. Kind of forcing me to consider the purchase.
Considering that, i was hoping for the lights to go green so i could drive off, purely for the principle of it.

So would anybody else have thrown her some money?
Theres quite a large flow of traffic there so i assume, its statistically likely that she is getting some money from this venture.

Theres a woman with one leg who begs at the traffic lights just before the airside retail park who bangs on car windows begging has any one encountered her yet?

Hootanany · 12-01-2013 08:14PM

Just as she is about to knock onyour window reverse back a bit that should put her of her stride.

StormWarrior · 12-01-2013 08:21PM

The same thing happened to me when I was in Hungary. I was walking through a busy street and some gypsy woman was handing out what I thought were leaflets. she thrust one at me as I walked past but then as I walked away she ran after me and grabbed my arm. After establishing that I needed her to speak english, she showed me that what she had handed me was a page of stickers, and told me that she was selling them to raise money for "poor Hungarian babies." she was clearly not an official charity collector, she had no ID, no collecting tin, nothing. So I gave her back the stickers, said no thanks and walked off. she was furious and walked after me for a way, shouting abuse.